
Nonprofit that backs defunding ICE to oversee DHS pilot program aiding illegal immigrants
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A new Department of Homeland Security program to aid illegal immigrants will have on its board an organization that called for the defunding and abolition of ICE
The CMPP was authorized by Congress in the 2021 DHS Appropriations Act, which provided $5 million in funding to FEMA for the program. It also set out eligibility for who could sit on the program's National Board, outlining that organizations must be nonprofits, nonpartisan, and have expertise in the asylum and refugee field, detention alternatives and case management. Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.
CWS, a faith-based non-profit that was set up after World War II, is one of the three members that met the criteria and was selected to sit on the board – along with two other non-profits – and has also been designated as its secretariat and fiscal agent. According to documents on the program, CWS "will be substantially involved in the oversight, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of the program outcomes." He can be reached at adam.shaw2@fox.com or on Twitter.













